Asking for charity

Usage examples of begging.

Meg went about from house to house, begging deadclothes, and got the body straighted in a wonderful decent manner, with a plate of earth and salt placed upon it--an admonitory type of mortality and eternal life that has ill-advisedly gone out of fashion.

But you can depend on my word that you will not know it until you have written me a very long letter begging me very humbly to indicate the place where the divine letter of the adorable object of your vows has gone.

The intensity of our ardour will excite his own, and he will throw himself at my feet, begging and entreating me to give up to him the only object likely to calm his amorous excitement.

Anyone who tries to steal a valuable item from the Ancestress is begging for an unpleasant death, and I am now too old to attempt it without having some muscle to back me up.

At first they had been ashamed, because they were not used to begging but hunger had compelled them.

Exterminator whined and tugged on the leash, begging to visit Cole--who studiously averted his gaze.

Muses bedew their cheeks with tears, in his strait is heard on every side the wailing appeal to us, and to avoid the danger of impending death he shows the slight sign of the ancient tonsure which we bestowed upon him, begging that we may be called to his aid and bear witness to the privilege bestowed upon him.

The conversation, as well as the pretty eyes of the niece, began to interest me, but fortunately the uncle put an end to it by begging me to follow him.

I wrote her a note, in which I begged her pardon, promising that I would never offend her again, and begging her to forget everything and to be just the same as before.

The bikini bottom was tied on each hip, the strings dangling and begging to be unraveled.

Gagged and blindfolded she had no other way of begging Auda to stop the cruel treatment.

Transcendental missionary lurched out of the crowd, her begging terminal extended in both hands, and Booly circled to the left.

Erembalds, who were afraid to bury it in Bruges lest the sight of the tomb of Charles the Good should one day rouse the townsmen to avenge his death, sent a message to Ghent, begging the Abbot of St.

When he buffed her, she stretched and crooned and bumped her head against his hand, begging for further caresses.

Just think, Caddie, if you had a painter begging you to let him do your portrait.